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Ensuring Warm Homes For All: Role of a National Scheme

Simon Kemp

Aims for today

• Introduce Warmworks
• Warmer Homes Scotland Scheme – the national approach
• The devolved policy landscape

Warmworks and Warmer Homes Scotland

Warmworks is a joint venture partnership between EST, Changeworks and Everwarm Set up in 2015, we manage the Scottish Government’s flagship £224m national fuel poverty scheme, Warmer Homes Scotland

The story so far (in numbers)

• The scheme to date has helped more than 14,000 householders since

2015, with an average annual bill saving of more than £350

• Investment of more than £70m in the scheme so far
• More than 10,000 inefficient or broken boilers have been replaced in

three years

• In the last year alone:
• Completed 8,500 surveys across the whole of Scotland
• Carried out over 5,000 inspections, 93% passed first time
• Answered 27,829 calls and 97% of them in target time
• 250,000+ interactions on our social media platforms

Delivering all across Scotland

Making a big impact across all areas of Scotland with 21 sub- contractors across Scotland delivering a local service

Sep 2015 to March 2017 April 2017 to March 2018

Wider impact in communities

• Almost 100 apprentices in the supply chain
• All of our supply chain re-stated their commitment to Living Wage
• Winner of GO Awards Scotland’s Best Service Provider 2018
• We were shortlisted for a Living Wage Award for the second year running
• Accredited as an Investors in Young People employer
• Warmworks has supported work experience placements

Setting the policy context

• Scottish Government is committed to tackling fuel poverty – Bill currently proceeding through

Parliament that will create a new statutory obligation

• Energy efficiency is an infrastructure priority for Scottish Government and is still seen as

cornerstone of efforts to lower fuel bills

• Energy efficiency programmes were brought together under a revised ‘Home Energy Efficiency

Programmes for Scotland’ umbrella in April 2013

• Government is now evaluating future roadmap – Energy Efficient Scotland

Home Energy Efficiency Programme for Scotland (2016/17)

• £8.5m additional ECO leveraged into HEEPS
• £64.5m total ECO in Scotland (13.5% of UK ECO measures)

Source: Home Energy Efficiency Programmes for Scotland Report 2016-2017 (June 2018) Scottish Government

Current delivery model

• Owner Occupier
• Privately rented sectors
• Energy Saving Trust
• HES advice centres
• Warmworks
• Local Authorities

Source: Domestic Energy Efficiency Schemes in Scotland (Jan 2016) SPICe Briefing

Domestic sector policy landscape: 2018 - 2040

Source: Energy Efficient Scotland Route Map (May 2018) Scottish Government

Keys to success

• Strong cross party and public support
• Security of long term contracts (5 years +)
• Government ambition, leadership and clear strategies to deliver with funding committed
• Trusted ethical partners deliver quality outcomes: LAs, EST, 3rd sector, Warmworks
• Joined up approach with complementary intervention strategies
• “Think national, deliver local” can take different forms
• Independence from energy suppliers
• You get what you pay for

THANK YOU

Questions?